I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.